| The market for software and business services for working groups and document management gets increasingly complex. Although the differentiation between the various offers is far from being easy, we will try to help you understanding what you can expect from viaContext™ by considering a few popular keywords in this area. |
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| Email, Calendars and Task Lists |
| The market offers quite a few software systems for the electronic communication of group members (groupware) through email, shared calendars and tasks lists (Outlook/Exchange, Lotus Notes, etc.). viaContext™ can complement these systems through its capabilities in the structured management of shared documents and media. viaContext™ thus does not provide its own email, calendar or task list management. |
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| Business Processes and Workflow |
| Most systems offered under the term (Enterprise-) Document Management (or Content Management) no longer have their focus on the structured management of documents, but on the electronic mapping of business processes. |
| Due to the mapping of complex business processes (workflow) and technical support for the complete lifecycle of a document (scanner support, electronic fax recording, revision-proof archival, etc.), these systems usually come at a high cost and an inflexible, since location based, architecture. For many organisations, these systems are too costly and inflexible. |
| viaContext™ does not support workflow management and components, which depend on technology attached to a certain place. The gain in flexibility through a completely web-based system thus enables access to knowledge particularly with a medium-term or long-term application context beyond the boundaries of localized systems. |
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